Nazis Dig In to Hold All Winter PILL-BOXES GUNS WIRE
German defense concentrates along the Fifth Army front to hold the Cassino to Rome valley as winter line fortifications rise. Bad weather slows supply and bombardment, but clear skies allow air strikes on Eleusis and Kalamaki airfields near Athens as Allied forces push to Rome.
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Italy
Garigliano
Fifth Army
Rome
Rocky Mountains
Salerno
Cassino
Eighth Army
Athens
Greece
Eleusis
Kalamaki
House Grants Fathers Draft Order Shift in War Policy
Washington reports a unanimous House voice vote sending to the Senate a compromise draft bill. It places pre war fathers at the bottom of induction priority, not called until non fathers without valid deferrals are drafted. The plan mirrors the Kilday measure and stems from a joint committee report.
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Washington
House
Senate
Senate House Committee
Reunion Nearing Close at Scottish Rite Fall Session
The Scottish Rite Fall Reunion moved to confer the 31st degree under Henry H. Asher. A class of 19 will finish next Wednesday with the 32nd degree at 4 pm led by R A Schwegler, followed by a banquet at 7 pm for members and ladies. Dr Claud F. Young of Fort Scott Kansas is expected as chief speaker with Ed F Abels as toastmaster. The class named Victory and elected Allan Daugherty president Arthur M M Gardner secretary treasurer Harold G Barr orator.
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Henry H. Asher
R.A. Schwegler
Claud F. Young
Fort Scott
Kan
Feneral
Kansas
Ed F. Abels
Victory
Allan Daugherty
Baldwin
Arthur MM. Gardner
Harold G. Barr
Stock Market Index Advances Slightly as Residents Seek Housing
The daily stock average of 60 stocks rose to 47.7 from 47.5 as readers scan the Journal-World classified pages for available houses and apartments.
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Journal-World
Sea-Roving Allied Bombers Hit Japanese Bases at Many Points
Allied Liberator and Mitchell bombers hit Japanese bases from New Guinea to the Marshall Islands. Reports speak of sinking 2,500 and 6,000 ton ships near New Guinea and New Britain and a 11,000 ton cargo vessel at Hong Kong. Nimitz says carriers plan a Pacific offensive. MacArthur notes 50 ships sunk or damaged in the Rabaul area.
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Japan
New Guinea
Marshall Islands
New Britain
Bougainville
Hong Kong
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Manila
Luzon
Europe
R. H. Dewing
Melbourne
Germany
Pacific
Marshall
Gilbert
Seventh Air Force
Hawaii
Marshalls
Gilberts
Ellice Islands
Nanumea
Funafuti
Althe
Chester W. Nimitz
Liberators
Jaluit
Mills
Makin
Tarawa
Admiral Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Central Pacific
Rabaul
Catalina
Douglas MacArthur
Reds Give Ground In Ukraine As Red Army Withdraws
Moscow reports the Red Army retreated in the Zhitomir Korostyshev sector near Kiev amid heavy German counter-attacks and difficult terrain. Observers say the move was likely tactical to avoid encirclement, with 150,000 German troops involved in the Zhitomir drive and the Kiev bridgehead remaining flankable for renewed Russian action.
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Moscow
Red Army
Ukraine
Zhitomir-Korostyshev
Kiev
Stalingrad
Zhitomir
Fostov
London
Korostyshev
Nikolai Vatutin
Belgorod
Korosten
Coal Mine Operators Are Taken To Task by Ickes
Secretary Ickes criticized captive coal mine owners for skipping wage conferences with the United Mine Workers. He defended negotiating with the union during wartime strike and said restoration of government control hinges on a new contract. He cited 35 million tons lost due to stoppages and questioned reaching 1943 goal of 600 million tons within 20 million tons short.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ickes
United Mine Workers
N A A C P Meeting Set At Pentecostal Church
The N A A C P will meet Friday night at 8 30 at the Pentecostal church at Nineteenth and Tennessee streets. The session is open to the public and is the last regular gathering before the annual election December 2. Mrs. W S Sims presides, Miss Minnie Lucas is secretary, and Rev W S Sims heads the program committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.A.A.C.P
Pentecostal Church
Nineteenth
Tennessee
W. S. Sims
Minnie Lucas
W.S. Sims
German aerial attack hits Samos after Leros loss
German bombers and dive bombers strike Samos, last Allied held Aegean island, after the fall of Leros. London papers criticize the Leros defeat, urging official explanations and questioning Allied strategy while reports cite German landing craft near the island.
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London
Leros
Samos
Aegean
Erlin
Herald
Turkey
Balkans
News Chronicle
Daily Mail
Morley Richards
Daily Express
Associated Press
Cairo
Marshland Gander
Telegraph
Gamer
Two Wichita Firemen Die Fighting Downtown Blaze
In Wichita on November 18 two firefighters were killed tackling a blaze at a building housing the University of Wichita school of fine arts. Lieut. C. F. Grosvenor aged 36 and Fireman Keith W. Fulton 30 died after contact with overhead wires while removing an aluminum ladder. Fireman Jack R. Hatfield was also injured and Loyd Tompkins 40 suffered back injuries leaping from a second floor window. The fire caused thousands of dollars in damage including four concert pianos valued at 3,500 dollars each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
University of Wichita School of Fine Arts
C. F. Grosvenor
Keith W. Fulton
Gemevench
Fulton
Jack R. Hatfield
Grosvenor and
University of Wichita
Atfield
Lloyd Tompkins
Kool
William Allen Whites Are on Their Way Home
William Allen White editor and publisher of the Emporia Gazette travels from Rochester Minn after abdominal surgery on Oct 20. He arrives in Kansas City Nov 18 with Mrs White and is met by E T Lowther and Mrs Lowther. They will drive to Emporia for the football game Haskell versus Turner at 7 45 p m at Haskell Stadium Adv.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Emporia Gazette
William Allen White
Rochester
Minn
White
E. T. Lowther
Gazette
Hull Reports Moscow Meeting In World Peace Drive
Secretary of State Hull declares after the Moscow conference that nations must cooperate to secure peace and security. He cites no secret agreements and urges continued unity among United Nations to shorten the war and shape postwar order under law.
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Hull
Congress
United Nations
Hall
Moscow
Roosevelt
Germany
Italy
United and
Associated Nations
Advance Ticket Sale for sas Missouri Game
Reserved seat tickets for the Kansas Missouri homecoming football game go on sale at Round Corner drug store tomorrow and Saturday morning. Tickets are 2.25 dollars including tax. General admission in the north bowl is 1.10 dollars, sold at the stadium an hour before kickoff. Game time is 2 30 p m.
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Kansas-Missouri
Round Corner Drug Store
Rumored Tripartite Meeting For Allied Leaders
In London on November 18 rumors spread that President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin would meet on neutral ground soon. No official confirmation. U.S. dispatches and British papers speculated a joint declaration demanding surrender of Germany and other major military decisions.
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London
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
United States
Daily Telegraph
Washington Dispatch
Germany
News-Chronicle
Washington
Robert Waithman
Air WAC recruiting talk highlights women’s air force roles
Lt Mark Treat and several veterans spoke at the Community Building to introduce Lawrence women to Air Forces opportunities. Kansas veterans Ralph Naslund and Howard Jameson shared frontline service while Lt Mary McPherson and Pfc Evelyn Leasure described Air-WAC experiences. Maj Maurice Smith outlined recruiting, with KU’s E C Buehler MCing as coordinators explained tests and interviews for eligible applicants.
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WAC
South Pacific
Mark G. Treat
Midway
Solomons
Lawrence
Ralph Naslund
Hickham Field
Howard M. Jameson
R. S. Jameson
Vinland
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Air Forces
Pueblo Army Air Base
Mary E. McPherson
Air-Wac
Evelyn Leasure
Lowry Field
Denver
Colo
Maurice R. Smith
Army Air Base
Carlsbad
N. M
Kansas
Missouri
E. C. Buehler
K. U
McPherson
Pfc. Leasure
7Th
Massachusetts
Jayhawk
Dahler to New Post in Kansas City Education Office
Hollis W. Dahler, principal at Haskell Institute since August 25 1942, will leave December 1 to become coordinator of trade and industrial education in Kansas City Missouri His headquarters will be the Manual and Vocational high school in Kansas City MO Dahler notes postwar training and adult education programs for rehabilitation and peacetime economic readjustment after war work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollis W. Dahler
Haskell Institute
Kansas City
Missouri
Manual and Vocational High School
Dahler
Issue Tire Certificates From City and County Panels
The city tire rationing board issued certificates for 3 grade 1 tires 12 grade 8 tires 10 passenger tubes 5 truck tires and 2 truck tubes. Bicycle certificates went to J Merle Robidoux and Patricia Riling. The county panel issued certificates for 10 grade 1 tires 12 grade 8 tires 12 passenger tubes 5 truck tires 3 truck tubes and 6 retreads.
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Tire Rationing Board
J. Merle Robidoux
West Tennessee Street
Patricia Riling
Tennessee Street
Ottawa vs Lawrence High School Game Report
The Journal World will publish the score of the Ottawa Lawrence high school game played tomorrow on the former field. The game starts at 8 and the halftime score will be available about 9. Telephone number 22 for contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Journal-World
Trap Snaps Up tardy motorists on Massachusetts street
State highway patrol set a license trap on Massachusetts Street through Central Park catching motorists without proper driver or chauffeur licenses. By noon seven were arrested in Lawrence, six pled guilty paying fines and costs, one given a chance to fetch his license and fined minimally. The trap involved officers from Topeka and Kansas City areas. delinquent licenses expired last June and new two year licenses were due last July.
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State Highway Patrol
Massachusetts Street
Central Park
Justice Court of
O. J. Lane
Kansas
J. R. Hamilton
Albany
Frank J. Hines
Kansas City
Lewis C. Rozelle
Bernice Canfield
C. S. Barker
Lawrence
Henry Roche
Route 8
Baldwin
Justice of the Peace Lane
C. C. Cropp
J. D. Amos
Topeka
Ralph Randell
Kan
Noel and Calhoun
Clarence McKay
Harvey Schmedemann
British pressure on reconstruction policy to match U S trade plans
Sir Patrick Hannon of Parliament told the annual meeting of the National Union of Manufacturers that the Churchill government lags as the United States becomes the dominant influence in postwar international trade planning. He urged a clear reconstruction strategy and warned against uneasy silence on policy.
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London
Patrick Hannon
National Union of Manufacturers
United States
Sir Patrick
Washington
Kansas Leads Nation in War Fund Drive Progress
The Kansas United War Fund campaign ranks second nationally and first in region three for percent of quota contributed. Kansas trails the $1,259,500 goal by $110,920 with 59 counties already exceeding their quotas and 10 more counties expected to report. Lt. Gov. Jess Denions says Thanksgiving should push the drive over the top. Region peers include Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
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Topeka
Kansas United War Fund
Kansas
Jess Denions
Arizona
California
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Selective Service Inductions Noted for Douglas County Men
Accepted for Service Notice shows Douglas County registrants inducted into the armed forces. Jewell Mills to the Navy in Santa Fe New Mexico. Robert Eugene Rose to the Coast Guard in Kansas City Missouri. Walter Cappanhe to the Navy as a volunteer at Fort Leavenworth.
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Douglas County
Parties urged to adopt identical foreign policy plank
Harrisburg November 18 1943 Republican National Committeeman Clarence Budington Kelland echoed Navy Secretary Frank Knox proposing that both Democrats and Republicans include identical foreign relations planks in their 1944 party platforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Arizona
Republican National
Clarence Budington Kelland
Navy
Frank Knox
Fierce Central China Fighting Rebuffs Japanese Counterattack
Chinese high command reports heavy casualties on both sides after repulsing a Japanese counterattack northeast of Yochow on the central China front. The fighting near Chungking continued through the night with significant losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central China Chungking
Central China Front
High Command
Yochow
Germans pay high price at Leros in Aegean clash
Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson said enemy casualties at Leros surpassed the British force defending the island. He cited German losses including ships sunk and air attacks, noting the Aegean operation yielded dividends despite German gains on the ground and sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Sir Henry Maitland Wilson
Middle East
Leros
Aegean
Wilson
Germany
New Pupils Added as Lawrence Schools See Influx
Lawrence city schools report an early surge in enrollment due to Sunflower Ordinance Works construction. McAllaster notes ten new students this week, New York adds six, Pinckney twelve, while Warren Smith expects more after inquiries. Trailers appear citywide as housing inquiries reach about ten units.
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Lawrence
Sunflower Ordnance Works
McAllaster
New York
Ralph Graber
Warren Smith
Pinckney
Housing Bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce
Newsprint Cuts Proposed For 1944 By WPB Advisory
Washington reports the war production board advisory committee recommended a 23 percent total newsprint cut for 1944 with a sliding scale from no reduction for small papers to 28 percent for large ones. Total potential savings about 194000 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Newspaper Industry Advisory Committee
War Production Board
Harry M. Bitner
WPB O Printing and Publishing
Harold Boeschenstein
WPB Pulp and Paper Products Division
WPB
Canada
United States
Newfoundland
Audit cites firm over Franklin county welfare fund shortage
Topeka Nov 18 UP the state and municipal accounting board cited J D M Crockett and company of Kansas City Kansas to appear for hearing Nov 27 over a reported 34965 shortage in the Franklin county welfare fund. State Accountant Gil Hamilton said the firm would be asked to explain why the alleged shortage was not found in its audits. Charles B Riegle former Franklin county fiscal officer has been charged with embezzling 368 from the fund and County Attorney John Quin says other charges are being prepared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
State and Municipal Accounting Board Today
J. D. M. Crockett and Company
Kansas City
Kan
Franklin County Welfare Fund
Gil Hamilton
Charles B. Riegle
Franklin County
John Quin
Annual F F A Banquet Held At Eldridge Hotel
The twelfth annual father and son banquet of the Jayhawk Chapter of the Future Farmers of America drew 125 attendees at the Eldridge Hotel. Officers, awards, and a keynote by Dr. R. H. Wheeler highlighted the evening, with special War Bond prizes and scholastic honors bestowed on members.
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Jayhawk
Future Farmers of America
Eldridge
F.F.A
Leslie Demeritt
Billy Daggett
Elroy Eberwein
Robert Laptad
Harley Yoder
Oliver Hobbs
Dorothy Mae Nelson
Leslia Demeritt
Martha Demeritt
Richard Heine
Ludwig Heine
John W. Daggett
John Morgan
J. F. Morgan
Darrell Houk
Harvey Houk
Clinton Laughlin
Woodie Laughlin
Harold M. Camney
Douglas County
Earl Mitchell
Unusual Warm Wave Grips Kansas as Temps Soar
In Topeka and across Kansas temperatures ran well above normal with readings reaching 79 at Goodland and 73 in Topeka near a date record. Forecaster Flora described the spell as unusually fine for late November and predicted only a slight cooldown with no rain in sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Goodland
Phillipsburg
Flora
Senate panel backs eight-cent wage boost for railway workers
Washington reports that a Senate interstate commerce sub committee tentatively approved the Truman resolution endorsing an eight-cent-an-hour pay raise for 1 100 000 non operating railway employees a boost vetoed by Economic Stabilization Director Fred M Vinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce
Fred M. Vinson
Governor Proclaims Thanksgiving in Kansas
Governor Andrew Schoeppel urged Kansans to observe Thanksgiving Day next Thursday honoring bountiful harvests and the sacrifices of men and women in the armed services. The proclamation was issued from Topeka on November 18.
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Topeka
Andrew Schoeppel
Kansans
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Claude F. Young
Wichita U
William Allen
Haskelle
Turner
Haskell Stadium
Adv
Spirit
Sas
Air Wac
Dahlor
Haskell
Keeler
Afl
Court House
U. S
Tates Manufacturers
WLE
Dr. Wheeler
R. H. Wheeler
University of Kansas
Clifford Dean
William R. Essick
Lawrence High School
Gas Office
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